RICHARD SCOTT HUENNEKENS,VINCENT J. BURGESS,MARJA PAULIINA MARGOLIS,BLAIR D. WALKER,JON D. KLINGENSMITH,NANCY PERRY POOL,RANDALL KENT HANSON
申请号:
US13632916
公开号:
US20130030295A1
申请日:
2012.10.01
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要:
A method and system are disclosed for creating, in a coordinated manner, graphical images of a body including vascular features from a combination of image data sources. The method includes initially creating an angiographic image of a vessel segment. The angiographic image is, for example, either a two or three dimensional image representation. Next, a vessel image data set is acquired that is distinct from the angiographic image data. The vessel image data set comprises information acquired at a series of positions along the vessel segment. An example of such vessel image data is a set of intravascular ultrasound frames corresponding to circumferential cross-section slices taken at various positions along the vessel segment. The angiographic image and the vessel image data set are correlated by comparing a characteristic rendered independently from both the angiographic image and the vessel image data at positions along the vessel segment.